This paper investigates the influence of the soil electrical conductivity and permittivity dependence with frequency in grounding response to lightning currents. Simulated results for soil with frequency variation of its parameters show: i) a significant reduction of the amplitude values of the transient voltages and impulse impedance; ii) an increase of the expected effective length of electro...

A phenomenological ansatz for the flavor–asymmetry of the light sea distributions of the nucleon, based on the Pauli exclusion principle, is proposed. This ansatz is compatible with the measured flavor–asymmetry of the unpolarized sea distributions, d̄ > ū, of the nucleon. A prediction for the corresponding polarized flavor–asymmetry is presented and shown to agree with predictions of (chiral qu...

We have examined the equilibrium binding of a series of synthetic oligoarginines (net charge z = +2 to +6) containing tryptophan to poly(U), poly(A), poly(C), poly(I), and double-stranded (ds) DNA. Equilibrium association constants, K(obs), measured by monitoring tryptophan fluorescence quenching, were examined as functions of monovalent salt (MX) concentration and type, as well as temperature,...

The sonoelastographic theory of tumor detection predicts enhanced image contrast as vibration frequency increases. However, the opposite effect is observed when imaging liver lesions at frequencies (200-400 Hz) where strong viscoelastic effects dominate. Mechanical testing was performed and confirmed the viscoelasticity of liver tissue. The time dependence of the stress relaxation suggests a vi...

In recent years, in various sectors of our society, there have been nationalist stirrings which were crystallized and articulated by the late Claro M. Recto, There were jealous demands for the recognition of Philippine sovereignty on the Bases question. There were appeals for the correction of the iniquitous economic relations between the Philippines and the United States. For a time, Filipino ...

PVA/CuI polymer composite samples have been prepared and subjected to characterizations using FT-IR spectroscopy, DSC analysis, ac spectroscopy and dc conduction. The FT-IR spectral analysis shows remarkable variation of the absorption peak positions whereas DSC illustrates a little decrease of both glass transition temperature, Tg , and crystallization fraction, χ, with increasing CuI concentr...

The dc and ac conductivities of carbon nanotubes-polyepoxy composites have been investigated from 20 to 110 °C in the frequency range 10-10 Hz as a function of the conductive weight fraction p ranging from 0.04 to 2.5 wt %. The frequency dependence of the measured conductivity obeys the universal dynamic response (UDR): a dc plateau followed, above a critical frequency ωc, by the ω power law wi...